Building Teams with TEAMES & CO

We have all been adjusting to a new reality for our teams, and part of this has been learning to work in new ways. This may mean that you and your team are now working virtually or some of your team may be working from the office and others may be virtual. The concepts shared not only highlight how to support virtual teams now but on-going as you work across locations. Additionally, woven through the discussion are insights on how you can manage this change of shifting to working virtually, as well as managing future change processes that you and your team may face throughout your growth. 

Show Highlights 

1.  Defining Stakeholders for your team to help them identify who they will be working with and the cadence of communications needed. Highlighted here are tools such as RACI (1:26)
2. How and why to define a team process checklist to understand what resources and tools your team will need to be successful as they navigate change (7:57)
3. Building a strong communication cadence for both your internal teams and external stakeholders (12:43)

Interesting Links & Resources 

• More information on RACI and other related models https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix
• Visit our Blog to learn how to successfully lead virtual teams. https://teamesandco.com/blog/how-to-lead-virtual-teams-successfully

Want to learn more about preparing your team for growth and building team agility https://teamesandco.com/teams/organizational-design 

Leading virtual teams? Listen to our Season 2 podcast with Susanna L Harris to learn how she and the PhD Balance team navigate working virtually. (INSERT SHOW LINK)

Views expressed by guests are their own and may not reflect the views of Teames and Co. Mention of particular products or services and participation of a guest does not imply an endorsement by Teames and Co. The information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes and should not be taken as professional advice.

In today’s episode the TEAMES & CO team,  dive into how companies that are in the middle of large-scale change, and perhaps know that more changes are on the way, can go about responding now, and also preparing their short-term, medium-term, and long-term plans.

Show Highlights 

1. How does change affect my team, and how can I help support my team through change? (2:32)
2. How does change affect my customers, and how can our team ease the transition of change for your customers, building an exceptional experience for them despite the change. (5:49)
3. How is this change affecting my strategy, and do we need to adjust our strategy to better accelerate our growth? (8:41)

Interesting Links & Resources 

Managing change with your teams?  Learn how you can optimize your Feedback loop to help build strong communication through change https://medium.com/the-innovation/does-feedback-make-you-cringe-how-to-revamp-your-feedback-loop-6654805ce3ef

Want to learn more about preparing your team for growth and building team agility https://teamesandco.com/teams/organizational-design 

Leading virtual teams? Listen to our podcast Episode 7 on how you can support your teams no matter their location (https://teamesandco.com/podcast/07)

Views expressed by guests are their own and may not reflect the views of Teames and Co. Mention of particular products or services and participation of a guest does not imply an endorsement by Teames and Co. The information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes and should not be taken as professional advice.

In this episode, Tracy and Luis discuss lessons for launching a business. The conversation is based on a recent article written by Tracy Eames "Launching a Business? 7 Ways to Learn from Our First Year".

Here is the link to the full article: https://medium.com/@tracy.eames/launching-a-business-7-ways-to-learn-from-our-first-year-406065634067

Show Highlights 

1. Empowering your teams and investing in the number one asset of your business (3: 57)
2. Don't stop at knowing your customer, put them at the center of your company ( 7:24)
3. Why mentors can help founders add a valuable perspective to their work and help them continue to develop their strategy and grow their business (13:35)

Want to learn more about solutions for your team  visit us at https://teamesandco.com/solutions

Listen to Episode 12 to learn how to collaborate across your teams  (https://teamesandco.com/podcast/12)

Views expressed by guests are their own and may not reflect the views of Teames and Co. Mention of particular products or services and participation of a guest does not imply an endorsement by Teames and Co. The information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes and should not be taken as professional advice.

In this episode, Tracy shares how Team Assimilation exercises are not only a great tool for new leaders to use to get to know their teams, but a tool that can be used by teams at all stages to manage change, build alignment and foster team agility.

Show Highlights:

1.  What is a team assimilation (1:06)
2. How do you prepare and lead team assimilation  (2:02)
3. Examples of results that can be gained from team assimilations  (6:03)

Want to learn more about preparing your team for growth and building team agility https://teamesandco.com/teams/organizational-design 

Navigating change? Listen to Episode 6 to learn how you can empower your team through change and build agility to help you and your team accelerate your growth (https://teamesandco.com/podcast/06)

Views expressed by guests are their own and may not reflect the views of Teames and Co. Mention of particular products or services and participation of a guest does not imply an endorsement by Teames and Co. The information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes and should not be taken as professional advice.

In this episode, we discuss how organizations can refocus around their customers. Our companies are all based around our customers, right? We started our business to fill a need, and deliver value to our customer base. We don't exist without our customers, so it's 

imperative to make sure that we understand who they are, and what they consider valuable. 

Highlights include:

1. Defining your customer and understanding what they consider valuable (1:41:)
2. How you can define a customer research plan using a recent research plan from our work as an example (4:08)
3. Overview of what is a customer persona and why they are helpful in building an exceptional customer experience (13:10)

Want to learn more about our approach visit us at https://teamesandco.com/about/meet-us

Listen to Episode 8 to learn more about effective Customer Communications (https://teamesandco.com/podcast/08)

Views expressed by guests are their own and may not reflect the views of Teames and Co. Mention of particular products or services and participation of a guest does not imply an endorsement by Teames and Co. The information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes and should not be taken as professional advice.

In this episode, Tracy and Luis speak to the leadership fallacy of oversimplification. As leaders, we're often busy, and this often translates into sitting in meetings all day while we are still trying to achieve results and develop our teams. Unfortunately, this means that vital initiatives like employee engagement,  team building, and succession planning can get boiled down and oversimplified, and mean we end up moving in the wrong direction versus helping empower our team. 

Highlights include :

1. How Employee Engagement is more than a buzz word, and how you and your team can build authentic engagement vs, falling into the “ping pong table trap” (3:06)
2. Moving from one-day team-building events to on-going efforts to building teams that are empowered (15:51)
3. Creating a succession plan that goes beyond planning the next role for a specific person to planning overall organizational development to build agile teams that support future growth. (24:28)

Want to learn more about our approach visit us at https://teamesandco.com/about/meet-us

Listen to Episode 4  to learn more about building your team with the help of a Team Assimilation (https://teamesandco.com/podcast/04)

Views expressed by guests are their own and may not reflect the views of Teames and Co. Mention of particular products or services and participation of a guest does not imply an endorsement by Teames and Co. The information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes and should not be taken as professional advice.

Join us to learn how TEAMES & CO was founded and how we help organizations build empowered teams and grow their business. 

We kick off by sharing how we work side-by-side with you to optimize your business model, align your organizational structure, and define key metrics to assess impact  – in other words, we make sure you have an exceptional team, working on the right priorities, with a clear strategy and roadmap for success.  

Our Founder and President, Tracy Eames walks us through:

1. Examples of how organizations (2:20) can inadvertently create friction points for their teams, and how they can remove those to help their teams deliver results. (2:20)
2. What new resources that the TEAMES & Co Team is developing (11:30)
3. How TEAMES a& CO is launching digital resources to help individual leaders develop their leadership skills and be prepared for recent changes. (14:04)

Want to learn more about our approach visit us at https://teamesandco.com/about/meet-us

Listen to Episode 2 - Fallacy of oversimplifying (https://teamesandco.com/podcast/02)

Views expressed by guests are their own and may not reflect the views of Teames and Co. Mention of particular products or services and participation of a guest does not imply an endorsement by Teames and Co. The information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes and should not be taken as professional advice.

In this episode, Luis Wilson, TEAMES & CO Product Manager, sits down with our founder and president, Tracy Eames. Together they introduce us to the TEAMES & CO podcast and what listeners can expect!

Stay tuned to learn more about how you can accelerate your growth by empowering your teams and helping them achieve an ambitious strategy while delivering an exceptional customer experience. To learn more about TEAMES & CO, visit us at www.teamesandco.com.

Views expressed by guests are their own and may not reflect the views of Teames and Co. Mention of particular products or services and participation of a guest does not imply an endorsement by Teames and Co. The information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes and should not be taken as professional advice.